50 points Find Examples of figurative language in this text:

January 13, 1932

2Dear Dr. Finley:

3After many days and many tribulations which are inseparable from existence here below, I sit down to the pleasure of writing to you and answering your delightful question, “What Did You Think ‘of the Sight’ When You Were on the Top of the Empire Building?”

4Frankly, I was so entranced “seeing” that I did not think about the sight. If there was a subconscious thought of it, it was in the nature of gratitude to God for having given the blind seeing minds. As I now recall the view I had from the Empire Tower, I am convinced that, until we have looked into darkness, we cannot know what a divine thing vision is.

5Perhaps I beheld a brighter prospect than my companions with two good eyes. Anyway, a blind friend gave me the best description I had of the Empire Building until I saw it myself.

6Do I hear you reply, “I suppose to you it is a reasonable thesis that the universe is all a dream, and that the blind only are awake?” Yes—no doubt I shall be left at the Last Day on the other bank defending the incredible prodigies of the unseen world, and, more incredible still, the strange grass and skies the blind behold are greener grass and bluer skies than ordinary eyes see. I will concede that my guides saw a thousand things that escaped me from the top of the Empire Building, but I am not envious. For imagination creates distances and horizons that reach to the end of the world. It is as easy for the mind to think in stars as in cobblestones. Sightless Milton1 dreamed visions no one else could see. Radiant with an inward light, he sent forth rays by which mankind beholds the realms of Paradise.

7But what of the Empire Building? It was a thrilling experience to be whizzed in a “lift” a quarter of a mile heavenward, and to see New York spread out like a marvelous tapestry beneath us.

8There was the Hudson—more like the flash of a sword-blade than a noble river. The little island of Manhattan, set like a jewel in its nest of rainbow waters, stared up into my face, and the solar system circled about my head! Why, I thought, the sun and the stars are suburbs of New York, and I never knew it! I had a sort of wild desire to invest in a bit of real estate on one of the planets. All sense of depression and hard times vanished, I felt like being frivolous with the stars. But that was only for a moment. I am too static to feel quite natural in a Star View cottage on the Milky Way, which must be something of a merry-go-round even on quiet days.

9I was pleasantly surprised to find the Empire Building so poetical. From every one except my blind friend I had received an impression of sordid2 materialism—the piling up of one steel honeycomb upon another with no real purpose but to satisfy the American craving for the superlative in everything. A Frenchman has said, in his exalted moments the American fancies himself a demigod, nay, a god; for only gods never tire of the prodigious. The highest, the largest, the most costly is the breath of his vanity.

10Well, I see in the Empire Building something else—passionate skill, arduous and fearless idealism. The tallest building is a victory of imagination. Instead of crouching close to earth like a beast, the spirit of man soars to higher regions, and from this new point of vantage he looks upon the impossible with fortified courage and dreams yet more magnificent enterprises.

11What did I “see and hear” from the Empire Tower? As I stood there ’twixt earth and sky, I saw a romantic structure wrought by human brains and hands that is to the burning eye of the sun a rival luminary.3 I saw it stand erect and serene in the midst of storm and the tumult of elemental commotion. I heard the hammer of Thor 4 ring when the shaft began to rise upward. I saw the unconquerable steel, the flash of testing flames, the sword-like rivets. I heard the steam drills in pandemonium. I saw countless skilled workers welding together that mighty symmetry. I looked upon the marvel of frail, yet indomitable hands that lifted the tower to its dominating height.

12Let cynics and supersensitive souls say what they will about American materialism and machine civilization. Beneath the surface are poetry, mysticism, and inspiration that the Empire Building somehow symbolizes. In that giant shaft I see a groping toward beauty and spiritual vision. I am one of those who see and yet believe.

13I hope I have not wearied you with my “screed”5 about sight and seeing. The length of this letter is a sign of long, long thoughts that bring me happiness. I am, with every good wish for the New Year,

14Sincerely yours,

15Helen Keller

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A. someone who is uncaring
B: someone who is sad
C. someone who is puzzled
D. someone who is angry​

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sentence.
Todd and Tyrone decided to go miniature golfing. He said he would
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A. Todd said she would pick Tyrone up at five.
B. Todd said he would pick Tyrone up at five.
C. Todd said they would pick them up at five.
D. He said they would pick him up at five.
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A
may
B
go
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D
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As far as I am concerned pepperoni pizza always needs banana peppers too.
a.
add a colon after the word needs
b.
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c.
add a colon after the word concerned
d.
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A claim refutes the central argument by providing opposing points of view.
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1. Diaries
2. Textbooks
3. Interview
4. Statistical Data
5. Biographies
6. Autobiographies
7. Literary criticisms
8. Political commentary 9. News editorial/Opinion pieces
10. Letters​

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The thesis statement expresses

A. The controlling idea of an essay

B. The evidence that comes from research

C. The limitations of the analysis

D. The source for quoted information

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Folk art seemed to stand apart from these ideas. People of the rural South and new migrants to Northern cities were thought to carry the seeds of black art. They were seen as independent from “white” traditions. Thus, their culture came to influence African-American artistic expression. For instance, James Weldon Johnson set traditional African-American sermons in free-verse poetic forms. His work was modeled on the techniques of black preachers.

Which conclusion is BEST supported by the paragraph?

A
Most people in Northern cities considered the sermons of African-American preachers to be poetry.
B
People in the rural South enjoyed collecting art created by African-American artists.
C
People from the rural South started creating art as soon as they arrived in Northern cities.
D
Most people in Northern cities viewed the culture of the rural South as different from their own.

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